Silver Mountain City
Title | Silver Mountain City PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Dustman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2021-05-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780983333104 |
The true story of Alpine County's long-vanished original county seat from 1862 to the 1880s, with photos of this silver mining ghost town in its hey-day.
Potosi
Title | Potosi PDF eBook |
Author | Kris Lane |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2021-03-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520383354 |
"For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potosí as a city . . . Lane’s book is the ideal place to begin."—The New York Review of Books In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world's greatest silver bonanza, making the Cerro Rico or "Rich Hill" and the Imperial Villa of Potosí instant legends, famous from Istanbul to Beijing. The Cerro Rico alone provided over half of the world's silver for a century, and even in decline, it remained the single richest source on earth. Potosí is the first interpretive history of the fabled mining city’s rise and fall. It tells the story of global economic transformation and the environmental and social impact of rampant colonial exploitation from Potosí’s startling emergence in the sixteenth century to its collapse in the nineteenth. Throughout, Kris Lane’s invigorating narrative offers rare details of this thriving city and its promise of prosperity. A new world of native workers, market women, African slaves, and other ordinary residents who lived alongside the elite merchants, refinery owners, wealthy widows, and crown officials, emerge in lively, riveting stories from the original sources. An engrossing depiction of excess and devastation, Potosí reveals the relentless human tradition in boom times and bust.
The Silver Mountain
Title | The Silver Mountain PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Cushman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | Authors, American |
ISBN |
Mines and Mineral Resources of Alpine County, California
Title | Mines and Mineral Resources of Alpine County, California PDF eBook |
Author | William B. Clark |
Publisher | |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Alpine County (Calif.) |
ISBN |
Report
Title | Report PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 610 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | Engineering |
ISBN |
Bulletin
Title | Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 698 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | Geology |
ISBN |
Alpine County
Title | Alpine County PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738530468 |
Alpine County is named for its massive peaks, thrust up from molten earth and scoured by glaciers, reminding European settlers of their own Alps. The Washoe Indians enjoyed this precipitous Eden with over 60 alpine lakes long before famous trailblazer Jedediah Smith, his pack animals dying, made it through these mountains. At first, few settlers ventured here, but a silver strike led hopeful residents to carve out a county, making Silver Mountain, then a town of 3,500, their seat of government. But the silver boom ended, and in 1875 Markleeville took the reins, as Silver Mountain was by then a ghost town. Although Alpine is now the least populated county in California, thousands come each year to hike, camp, or--following the tradition of famous Snowshoe Thompson--ski at popular Bear Valley and Kirkwood, or visit the delightful village of Markleeville, Grover Hot Springs, and other enchanting lake resorts.